Starting up a community group - getting people to work together page 6
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Getting People To Work Well Together
 
 
 
 
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Section 5:
 
Identifying potential roles within teams
 
The various roles team members may take on are...
 

 

Plant -a peculiar title for the group member who sees the 'bigger picture', this will be the person or people who can see all of the issues involved and can find new ways of tackling obstacles.
 
Resourcer - this person (or people) will be those who create and develop external contacts for the group to use - these people are often those good at discovering how other groups facing similar problems have overcome them. These people are often also good negotiators for the group.
   
Coordinator - this will be someone who recognises the strengths of the others within the group, puts them to work and encourages them to take on suitable roles
   
Shaper - someone who tends to keep the whole group focused on the task in hand and keeps people from wandering off in other directions away from the main goal - this will also be a person who can identify priorities and set achievable objectives for the group to reach
   
Evaluator -seen by the group as a 'voice of reason' this will be the person able to evaluate new ideas and proposals, identifying any pitfalls and problems in them before they are reached
   
Team Workers - those people in the group who create the 'team spirit' - they tend to jump in and help out wherever necessary when others are struggling. They have the ability to take other peoples ideas and turn them into reality.
   
Implementer - can take the ideas and concepts and figure out how to actually make them work in practice!
   
Completer
Finisher

- these will be group members who keep an eye on the detail of what still needs to be done and make sure that all the loose ends are finished off and not left half done!

   
Specialist - group specialists are literally the members who will tackle the specialized areas of the project - often taking on and dealing with technical issues and legal matters.
   
 
So which team member would you describe yourself as? - Is this how the rest of the team sees you? GO ON ASK THEM!!
 
In the next section we will go on to discuss how to get your group working together as effectively as possible.
 
 
 
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